By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

I don't take criticism lying down.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail